When you disconnect the player it looks for new song files and updates its database. This is normal. If you haven't changed any files, perhaps some other process is 'touching' the sansa and causing it to think some files have changed.
Why is it that every time I unplug my MP3 player from my computer, a green window pops up automatically on my MP3 player and it says "System Restart" and when it finally loads, another green thing pops up and says "Refreshing Database" and it starts to load for a minute or so. THEN, I can finally use it.
How can this be stopped?
Before this when I unplugged the cord, my MP3 player just goes right back to the main menu. Now it restarts and reloads itself. Why?

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